Livelihoods Officer

at  Save the Children

TITLE: Livelihoods Officers TEAM: Programme Operations – Future For Every child project (FuFEC) LOCATION: Ondo and Cross River states GRADE: 4
CONTRACT LENGTH: Fixed Term 1 year

QUALIFICATIONS

• 3 years relevant experience of working in livelihoods, including report writing.
• Educational qualification: B.SC in Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Economics or its equivalent in any related field of study.
• Previous experience of project management and implementation of livelihoods component of humanitarian and/or development projects.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• 3 years relevant experience of working in livelihoods, including report writing
• Academic qualification in Agriculture, Economics or other related fields
• Previous experience of project management and implementation
• Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability
• Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation
• Experience of training and staff capacity building
• Some experience of representation and ability to represent SC effectively in external forums.
• Knowledge of institutional donors and experience of developing proposals
• Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports
• Excellent communication and strong influencing skills
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
• A high level of written and spoken English
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
• Commitment to the aims and principles of SC. In particular, a good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support

ROLE PURPOSE:

Save the Children International (SCI) is a leading independent international organization creating lasting change for children in need around the world. SCI works in over 120 countries globally, including Nigeria, helping children to survive, learn, and be protected. We are working with the government to improve children’s education, health, nutrition, protection and economic opportunities, and in times of acute crisis, mobilizing rapid life-saving assistance to help the children to recover from the effects of war, conflict and natural disasters.
Save the Children, in partnership with Hershey, is playing a pivotal role in tackling child labor in cocoa-producing communities across Cross River and Ondo States, Nigeria. Through the Future for Every Child (FuFEC) project, this collaboration will focus on enhancing child protection by reducing child labor and increasing accountability within these cocoa-growing regions. The project will implement a Child Labor Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS) combined with a Child Protection System approach, addressing both immediate concerns such as child labor, child work, gender equality, and safeguarding, while also tackling the underlying root causes of child labor. Save the Children’s intervention aims to take a comprehensive approach to supporting children and their families in cocoa-producing communities, with the ultimate goal of reducing hazardous child labor in Nigeria. Children will be screened using a standardized assessment tool.
To ensure that proven strategies are applied to the real challenges faced by cocoa-growing communities, Save the Children will want the post holder to have experience of the proposes of conducting several assessments early in the project. These assessments will guide the implementation of economic empowerment interventions in the later stages. Specifically, Labor Market Assessment (LMA) and Income-Generating Activities (IGA) assessment focusing on the local cocoa production economy and ecosystem, from which participants will be selected. Additionally, the project will provide vocational training, entrepreneurship support for young adults, and promote Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs).

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Project Manager /Project Coordinator
Staff reporting to this post: N/A

ACCOUNTABILITY:

• holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

ADDITIONAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.